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I like the Bzhezhinska/Kofi album quite a bit, both the cover and the music... the basic idea is to do a tribute to Alice and John Coltrane (and Pharoah Sanders) with just tenor, harp and a bit of percussion.... which works very well imho

The new Tony Kofi album, a tribute to Alice, John and Pharoah with only harp (the co-leader), tenor sax and percussion

It was really nice to meet Pim, and also a great concert - Wadada Leo Smith, Fennesz and Nate Wooley are a pretty unique frontline

Yes, that's an exciting lineup, I'll be there too...

Ah, sorry, I was in a rush yesterday ... Pretty sure it was 1956... But the article may welll have had a delay...

Looking through the Coltrane reference, the gig I meant was probably in Quebec in mid-April so the Jazz Podium article may have been a little bit after that

many years ago, I had your photocopies which I then handed over to King Ubu... that's why I know of the article... it definitely is from the second half of the fifties, some German abroad reviewing a Canadian gig of the Miles Davis quintet with Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones (and probably also Garland and Chambers - but Jones I definitely remember and that should help with the dating). Will have a look at the Coltrane reference to see for more precise times when I'm home...

Smalls Records had some covers that fit at least to a certain extent

One article you really might want to have is a Jazz Podium review (in German) of Miles in Toronto, maybe Big Beat Steve can help out... ?! I mostly remember the comments about that great Basie drummer Jo Jones being in really bad physical shape but the whole article is worth reading

I guess a thread like this one here will also attract posts mostly from those who are most affected who all sit in the same age bracket... If I think back to almost 20 years ago when I joined, quite a few of the older posters have left us or have become more silent by now... And those were all too old to be called boomers... I just turned 43, how young can you be after almost 20 years... My main worry these days is storage space for a collection that's still growing...

that Gregory Groover Jr album looks interesting with Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross and Marcus Gilmore... no idea about the release date either but it's on spotify

I have one 33rpm 7'', Jimmy Knepper with Joe Maini and Bill Triglia on Danish Debut...

I only watched bits and pieces of the movie, and one moment that I noticed was one of the two guys from the club saying that he thought Dolphy might be on drugs from the way he was moving, the glassy eyes... And I wouldn't just want to call that racist stereotype - after all, I suppose those nights when the American guest stars didn't deliver on stage due to intoxication just happened from time to time.... It's easy to imagine that those who brought him to the hospital said "and by the way, we suspect it could be a drug overdose" with only good intentions... We have all read books about how Dolphy would never even touch a glass of wine - but those books weren't around back in the day

thanks, it's both Wright recounting what the doctors told him + the doctors saying that they had diagnosed a diabetes that apparently had not been noticed before... so that story + the fact that it's in the liner notes of a well-known album would explain how we all know about the diabetes even though Dolphy himself may never have known

There have been some investigations of this over the years, I believe I read more details than in this article somewhere at some point but I forgot https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/sie-erklarten-ihn-einfach-fur-tot-1167592.html In German but ir answers a few of the questions (the paragraph starting with "Ende Juni 1964", no time to translate right now). Sounds like it was definitely undiagnosed / unknown to the doctors - but someone must have diagnosed it at some point

Oh, i find that very easy to imagine!

And most likely, they won't even be speaking proper German on that show... (as my better half would point out, if you have the ability it's much wiser to speak Bavarian rather than German when traveling in Austria) Hope I can stream it a bit later, 5 minutes past midnight is usually not my time these days... And yes, very cool!

there's a Chico Freeman album with Freddie Waits and a Von Freeman album with Nasheet Waits... that's, of course, crossing the generations...

I did it for like half a year in 2009 or so, in order to get better at talking about music, and also to listen more consciously with streaming becoming a thing, i.e. in order to create some record of my listening as a placeholder for a music collection... It worked fairly well, no idea why I stopped, probably because it was quite a hassle and a very self-conscious thing to do...

Attila Zoller... I wouldn't really consider him more post bebop than Jim Hall... Szabo reminds me of the fact that there was Larry Corryell as well, both with Chico Hamilton... I find your story of "from a market and sales perspective GG partly filled a postbop void that was there until John McLaughlin appeared" really interesting... But is it true or almost true? I wouldn't consider Benson more "Soul Jazz" than Green, just like Beck he recorded with Miles... (For Beck I was mostly thinking of Songs for Wounded Knee w Richard Davis which is clearly postbop imho)

George Benson? Freddie Robinson? Joe Beck? Jimi Hendrix? There's so many more people I'm forgetting... The statement didn't feel quite right to me either....

I've streamed In Sommerhausen a few weeks ago and thought it sounded great ... Probably helped that the music is so good... And, indeed, it would be super weird if this wasn't the same version as on the CD - but I'm fairly ignorant about audio matters so curious about everyone else's verdict

A favorite... rip

"Hans" is J.A.

Looking at Discogs, I'd say somewhere between 10 and 20... You could animate the discussion by letting us know why you care about the answer and, possibly, what you think the answer might be...